Hugs-Love and Great Karma

By Cindy J. Smith

Too many people are feeling lost and disillusioned.  Cindy believes that, despite the hate and cruelty that surrounds her, beauty can be found if we look for it.  In this collection of poems, she shares her belief that a smile or a bit of understanding can change the world.  One act of kindness, one smile, brightens everything it touches.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cindy J. Smith
• Release date: Jun 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201952280

Cindy J. Smith

I grew up in the country of Upstate New York and now reside in the boonies of Midwestern Indiana. I am a coffee-addicted truck driver (as if there was any other kind). I have written poetry all my life. The topics and poems just come into my head. I try to write in the first person for most of them. I do this as people are more apt to relate to something when they are not feeling like they are the target. Some of my poems are true, either for me or for someone I know. I believe in magic and that life is worth living. I hope that my words will touch every reader in some way. I want everyone to open their eyes and really see what is before them.

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DEDICATION

THIS COLLECTION IS dedicated in loving memory of my sister in heaven, Rae Jo Booth. Her pixie size hid a big heart as well as a short fuse. Her love of daisies was lifelong and was a perfect representation of her... she was either happy or sad... there was no in-between. Heaven gained an angel and my heart a new hole.

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THE DIFFERENCE

Are we not all the same

Red blood flows in our veins

Have eyes to see and ears to hear

Have hopes and dreams as well as fears

Yet we choose to seek the one odd thing

Of this difference, let our voices ring

Constantly shout about the evilness

Keeping the world a hate-filled mess

Not willing to even consider

Difference could in fact be better

I refuse to accept this point of view

I'll praise the difference in each of you

FIRST TIME

After you fall in love the first time

It will never seem as real

Perhaps your heart hesitates

Reluctant to share all it feels

For experience has shown it

How painful caring can be

When you find it flowed one way

Fantasy destroyed by reality

Somehow love does conquer

Most of our trepidation

And though it doesn't feel the same

It is stronger with a firm foundation

A WATERFALL OF FAITH

Life is such a hard road to travel

Potholes and pitfalls litter the way

Sadness and heartache fill the horizon

Hiding the laughter and love from view

My body trembles as I raise my foot

Another step into the abyss that is the future

My will is slowly fading as burdens increase

Family estranged, my health declining

What is the point of it all

Why do I still try so hard to live

Then I look up into the dark sky

The sun's rays peeking through the clouds

Showing me beauty I had forgotten

God's love shared with all

Washing away my woes and anger

In a waterfall of faith

FIND ME

Lying on my bed

I closed my eyes

Praying that tonight

I'd sleep peacefully

Hoping beyond hope

The haunting whispers

Would be silent forever

Never to return

No, luck was not my friend

Soft yet clear I heard

Always the same words

A mantra repeated nightly

Find me...Find Me... FIND ME

I have no clue what it means

Who is this me I am to find

Don't they know to whom they speak

Can't they see that I am lost

I can't figure out myself

How could I possibly find some stranger

Why would I even try to

Find me...Find Me... FIND ME

Please, please voices

Tell me who I am to find

Where am I to look

If you will tell me where to start

I will search

If only to have you leave me alone

Find me...Find Me... FIND ME

Me, Me, ME...Who is ME????

"Listen to my voice

Open your ears and listen close

Find me...Find Me... FIND ME"

Finally, I listened

I knew that voice

It came from inside me

I looked deep into my soul

And I FOUND ME

A MEMORY

A wrinkle in time

That's what it is

Just a bump in the road

A blip in life's continuum

Hands of a clock sticking

Popping backwards a little

Pausing for a moment

Before moving forward

Reflecting what was

What could have been

Then it rushes onward

Ticking away the years

Striving, reaching out

Stretching towards the future

Until it pauses once again

Allowing the past to return

Become real again

Another memory relived

Heartache or happiness

Either way it is the past

Wrinkling the fabric of time

WHY DO I LOVE YOU

It is not because your face is nice

Nor the color or style of your hair

I doubt it is the sound of your voice

Maybe it is the way you seem to care

It's not due to the fact we exchanged some words

Nor is it the way your touch makes me feel

I know it’s because we've been together for years

I think that just proves my love is real

Why do I love you? I do not know

But it's a truth the whole world can see

By the look in my eyes, the smile on my face

When you are standing so close to me

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